Re: locale_charset() on MacOS X

[Hans Aberg]

On 27 Jan 2012, at 02:14, Bruno Haible wrote:

>  - On MacOS X nearly all users are working in the "C" locale. If a user
>    has told the OS that he's working in the French locale, the OS does
>    not set LC_* variables to indicate this, nor does the user usually
>    do so (why should he? he has already specified it once). Therefore
>    the normal situation on MacOS X is this:
>      $ env | grep LC_
>      $ locale
>      LANG=
>      LC_COLLATE="C"
>      LC_CTYPE="C"
>      LC_MESSAGES="C"
>      LC_MONETARY="C"
>      LC_NUMERIC="C"
>      LC_TIME="C"
>      LC_ALL=

This has been changed in OS X 10.7:
$ env | grep LC_
LC_CTYPE=UTF-8

$ locale
LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

Hans